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QFD Green Belt^® Update Package

Continuing education for QFD Gren Belts^®, this is a 2.5-day Package that combines the 2-day International Symposium on QFD (September 6–7, 2013) and the half-day QFD Green Belt^® UPDATE (September 8, 2013).

WHEN: September 6–8, 2013

WHERE: Hotel Santa Fe & The Hacienda in Santa Fe, New Mexico USA

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For questions and additional training opportunities, please scontact us by E-mail or Tel +1 734-995-0847.

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OVERVIEW:

Many new advancements have been made in QFD over the last few years. If it has been more than a year since you attended the QFD Green Belt^® Course, we strongly recommend this refresher course.

The QFD Green Belt^® UPDATE Course is a half-day, semi-private continuing education exclusively for those who have successfully graduated from the QFD Institute's QFD Green Belt^® Course in the past. Created in response to students' request to help keep the momentum going, this Update Course offers you an opportunity to update and enhance the QFD knowledge and skills learned in your previous course. It is especially recommended for those who holds a Provisional QFD Green Belt^® earned before September 2012.

You can bring your QFD samples for critique and coaching, or send your questions in advance. Attendees of this Update Course are eligible to enroll in the 2013 QFD Black Belt^® Certificate Course (September 9–13, Santa Fe) in a single trip.

Additionally, your registration also include the 2-day International Symposium (Sept. 6–7). This gives you an opportunity to see the latest case studies and new trends as well as to network with international experts in QFD and other relevant fields.

Who Is Eligible To Attend:

Prerequisites

• Anyone who have a full status or provisional QFD Green Belt^® Certificate.
• This Update Course is recommended especially for those who earned a Provisional QFD Green Belt^® before September 2012 and have not completed the Full Status review yet.

Verification of Prerequisites: You may be asked to provide your provisional Certificate number or your past couse information.

Attending from Overseas

Contents: 

This half-day UPDATE reviews the core knowledge of the QFD Green Belt^® Course and also covers the latest advancements in the curriculum. Your registration fee includes:

• a half-day QFD Green Belt^® Update Course with the latest release of the Green Belt^® training manual and templates;
• 1-year extension of the provisional Green Belt status;
• 2-day International Symposium (Sept. 6–7) with a networking reception and electronic copy of the symposium transactions.

Most importantly, those who are ready to step up to the next level are welcome to enroll in the QFD Black Belt^® (2013 September 9–13) on the same trip.

Planned for this QFD Green Belt® Update Course are the following topics:

• Improved algorithms for defining Customer Needs (Demanded Quality) for "new-to-world" products and services;
• Incorporating Blitz QFD^® into Dr. Akao's Comprehensive QFD to speed up the process;
• Why and how of replacing ordinal scale calculations with ratio scale calculations of customer needs priorities, sales point, competitive benchmarking, and matrix relationship weights - to bring your QFD math to Six Sigma provisions;
• Introduction to Kansei Engineering and Lifestyle QFD.
• Other topics may be added at the discretion of the instructor or at the request of students.

Recommended Things To Bring:

1. A laptop computer with CD drive, MS Excel^®, MS Word^®, and Adobe Acrobat^® (as you will receive the Modern QFD templates);
2. Relevant marketing and technical data for a small project or a part of a large project that you are currently working on or plan to work on in the future. IMPORTANT: You will not be asked to reveal any confidential data. The goal is to make the QFD exercises real and meaningful to you! If it is not feasible to bring such data, you may join others or use a generic (or hobby) project. → Detailed instructions on this will be sent to you after your registration is complete.

• (Optional) Your QFD samples for critiques and coaching. You may also send your questions in advance.

Registration:

Please use Registration Forms.

Registration Options of this course: 1) QFD Green Belt^® UPDATE Package (2.5 days total); or 2) QFD Black Belt® Package #1 (7.5 days total) . Please see the Registration Page for details. For questions, please E-mail Us or Tel +1 734-995-0847.

Venue

This course and Symposium will be held at the following venue hotel.

Hotel Santa Fe & The Hacienda
1501 Paseo de Peralta
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 USA
Front Desk: 1-505-982-1200;
Reservations: 1-855-825-9876

• Hotel reservations should be made directly with the hotel in advance.
• Travel information
• Santa Fe information

Inquiry

• Email Inquiry
• Tel +1 734-995-0847(9am-5pm EST)

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